Film, Families, and Family Therapy: The Therapeutic Session
The Film Interest Group has explored in the past subjects as diverse as ambiguous loss, the impact of technology, trauma, intercultural understanding, secrets and rituals, family process, among others. This year we will focus on films that directly portray a therapy session. We will discuss brief film clips in which a therapy session is included or is core as in the case of the series In Treatment. We will discuss the question of how films foster specific expectations about what should happen in therapy. We will also discuss the potential of these portrayals for training. For example, the therapeutic contract, common factors in couple and family therapy and the divergent narrative of clinicians and patients’ of what occurs in the therapy.
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore film’s portrayal of the therapy session
2. Discuss the potential of the therapeutic session portrayal for training
3. Analyze how common factors in couple and family therapy are exemplified in film
2010 Film, Families, and Family Therapy: Ambiguous Loss in Film
The Film Interest Group in conjunction with the Ambiguous Loss Interest Group are collaborating in this year meeting. Ambiguity about a person’s absence or presence in the past, present, or future has for centuries been the stuff of good theater and real life (Boss, 1999, 2001). Research has supported the idea that ambiguity creates a powerful block to coping and grieving and “the inability to resolve such ambiguous losses is due to the outside situation” (1999). Film provides a terrific opportunity to analyze ambiguous loss in the context of training and clinical work. As a springboard for several small group discussions, we will watch clips from Away from Her (Sarah Polley, 2006), Al Otro Lado (On The Other Side) (Gustavo Loza, 2005), The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004), and a recently released film. Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will examine the use of film to explore ambiguous loss in the case of illness and family relationships 2. Participants will acquire knowledge about film can be employed in training contexts to address ambiguous loss concepts. 3. Participants will explore the use of film in the practice of family therapy with patients dealing with ambiguous loss.
2009 New Orleans
Family Therapy and Film: The Impact of Technology
Chair: Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Films often explore social and cultural trends that the research and clinical literature may not assess timely. The impact of technology on families is one of those trends in which psychological and family research is still in its infancy. This year, we will review a set of brief edited clips of recent films and social media features, including Ben X (2008) and My Name is Lisa (2007). The clips will serve as a start point for a dialogue about the evolving impact of social networking, virtual reality, and Web 2.0 technologies on families and address the question of the “born digital” generation.
Learning Objectives:
To assess the contribution of film and social media in understanding how children and adolescents are utilizing technology.
To dialogue about the use of film to explore technology as an intrinsic element of family life.
To develop criteria for what may constitute good practices in the use of film for family therapy training and therapy.
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2008
INTEREST GROUP Family Therapy and Film
Chair: Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Films offer a powerful opportunity for beginning and experienced clinicians to explore underlying assumptions informing the assessment of the contexts that frame our patients’ lives. Carefully edited clips of three recent and extraordinary movies will serve as a start point for focused dialogue about how cultural and professional discourses frame our assessment of traumatic situations in intercultural contexts. A revised handout of film ideas for use in clinical and educational venues plus specific exercises will be shared with participants.
Learning Objectives:
1. To assess prevailing cultural assumptions about families in cross-cultural contexts though the use of film.
2. To dialogue about the use of film to explore complex self of the therapist dilemmas.
3. To develop criteria for what may constitute good practices in the use of film for family therapy training.
Clips to analyze:
The Namesake
In July
The Secret Life of Words
Family Institute of Cambridge
Family Therapy and Films 2007
Babel
2007
INTEREST GROUP Family Therapy and Film Part I: Using Film in Training
Chairs: Gonzalo Bacigalupe & Elana Katz
Invited guests: Janine Roberts, Gladis Brun, & Barbara Gewirtz
Films are a favorite resource for educators and trainers. Janine Roberts will show two Latin AMerican movie clips and talk about how she has used them in training. Gladis Brun will share her experiences training couple threrapists in Brazil using a classical couples movie by Bergman, "Scenes of a Marriage".
INTEREST GROUP Family Therapy and Film Part II
Chairs: Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Joan Barth, & Corky Becker
Invited guests: Evan Imber-Black & Robert-Jay Green
Films can have excellent sequels. In this part, we will focus on Miguel Vilaro with screen screen of clips from "September 12" directed by his friend John Tohuey, to discuss ambiguous loss. Robert-Jay Green will share a short clip from "Dady and Pappa" about an interracial gay male couple adopting an African American child. Evan Imber-Black will share a film edit from "Unstrung heroes," illustrating secrets and rituals in the context of life-shortening illness.
2006
Interest Group Proposal
Film, Family Therapy, and Families PART II: Complex Issues in Family Therapy
Historically, family therapy has been a pioneer at filming its own practices. We also refer to movies as learning experiences for ourselves, our families, trainees, and patients. Families and therapists watch movies, talk about them in therapy, and incorporate them into their lives. What movies are related in our conversations with families? How do we use movies to highlight family dynamics, problems, solutions, stories? We will screen segments of a few movies that have been recently released in DVD and discuss how they may become part of the therapeutic repertoire and the family's story. If you have a movie in mind, please email me to include it in the list. Popcorn is optional!
Clips to analyze
Machuca
Squid and the Whale
In the Bedroom
Initial group participants
1. Lascelles Black
2. Anne Bobrick (refer by landau
3. Robert Carroll
4. Lee Combrinck-Graham
5. Martha E. Edwards
6. Laura Forman
7. Kayta Gajdos
8. Christina Gaudio
9. Barbara Gewirtz
10. Eliana Gil
11. MaryAnna Ham
12. Evan Imber-Black
13. Sara " Susy" Jutoran
14. Elana Katz
15. Judith Kellner
16. Jay King
17. Ellen Landau
18. Judith Landau
19. Linda Lockspeiser
20. Don-David Lusterman
21. Mikki Meyer
22. Shel J. Miller,
23. Marsha Mirkin
24. Susan Oppenheim
25. Roberto Pereira
26. Sanja Rolovic
27. Joellyn Ross
28. Karen Saeger
29. Ken Silvestri
30. Muriel Singer
31. Charlotte Spiegelman
32. Margarita Tarragona
33. Marion Usher
Potential Movies
Affliction (substance abuse)
Saraband
Sunshine
Scenes of a Marriage
The reef
Machuca
Squid and the Whale
In the Bedroom
The Constant Gardener
Crash
An American Rhapsody
Pieces of April
The Pianist
House of Sand and Fog
The Upside of Anger
Girl Interrupted
Harry Potter
The Human Stain
Ordinary People
Yes
The Son's Room
Whale Rider
Being Julia
Traffic
Imagining Argentina
The Official Story
El Día que me amen (When somebody loves me)
Monsoon Wedding
The Joy Luck Club
Shine
Over the Hedge
Shrek
Antwone Fisher
Radio
Good Will Hunting
Mystic River
The Ice Storm
The Story of Us
The Breakfast Club
Mean Girls
Reality Bites
The Family Stone
Ghost World
Stand By Me
Thirteen
Clueless
Welcome to the Doll House
Thumbsucker
Drugstore Cowboy
A Walk on the Moon
An Unremarkable Life
Shall We Dance?
Off the Map
The Family (Ettore Scola)
The Woodsman (CSA)
Happiness
The Heart of the Stag
Always
Loggerheads with Kip Pardue
Bella (immigration, trauma)
Under the Same Moon (immigration, mother-son relationships, Latinos in the USA)
Dirty Pretty Things (refugees, trafficking)
Pursuit of Happiness (perseverance, father-son relationships, institutionalized racism)
In her shoes (cut off, substance abuse, sisters relationship, stepmother)
Baran (refugees, resilience)
XXY (transgender, gender)
Immigration/Refugees Experience Movies
A Day Without a Mexican
A World Apart
Al Otro Lado (children searching for their parent abroad)
Another Side of Peace
Babel (border, intercultural)
Baran (Afgani immigrants in Iran)
Bella (Immigrants in NYC)
Dirty Pretty Things (trafficking)
Dreams of Dust (Internal Displacement)
El Norte (crossing the border experience)
Encounter Point
The Forgotten Refugees
Golden Door
Grapes of Wrath
Hester Street
Hotel Rwanda
Human Tragedy: The Face of Kosovo
La Familia (drama)
Machuca (
Maria Full of Grace (drug traffic impact)
The Namesake (Bengali experience)
Promises
Rabbit Proof Fence (indigenous children in white schools)
Refugee
Refugee Nation
Schindler’s List
The Secret Life of Words (torture survivor)
The Violin
The Year My Parents went on Vacation
Shoah
Sophie’s Choice (Holocaust survival)
Spare Parts (Trafficking)
Strengthening Resistance: The Use of Narrative Practice in Working with Genocide Survivors (Rwanda) (documentary)
Syrian Bride (drama)
The three funerals of Melquiades Concha
Under the Same Moon (Children-Parents separated by border)
When the Levees Broke (Katrina)
Witnesses
FAMILY THERAPY AND FILM AFTA INTEREST GROUP
2011 Baltimore
Film, Families, and Family Therapy: The Therapeutic Session
The Film Interest Group has explored in the past subjects as diverse as ambiguous loss, the impact of technology, trauma, intercultural understanding, secrets and rituals, family process, among others. This year we will focus on films that directly portray a therapy session. We will discuss brief film clips in which a therapy session is included or is core as in the case of the series In Treatment. We will discuss the question of how films foster specific expectations about what should happen in therapy. We will also discuss the potential of these portrayals for training. For example, the therapeutic contract, common factors in couple and family therapy and the divergent narrative of clinicians and patients’ of what occurs in the therapy.
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore film’s portrayal of the therapy session
2. Discuss the potential of the therapeutic session portrayal for training
3. Analyze how common factors in couple and family therapy are exemplified in film
2010
Film, Families, and Family Therapy: Ambiguous Loss in Film
The Film Interest Group in conjunction with the Ambiguous Loss Interest Group are collaborating in this year meeting. Ambiguity about a person’s absence or presence in the past, present, or future has for centuries been the stuff of good theater and real life (Boss, 1999, 2001). Research has supported the idea that ambiguity creates a powerful block to coping and grieving and “the inability to resolve such ambiguous losses is due to the outside situation” (1999). Film provides a terrific opportunity to analyze ambiguous loss in the context of training and clinical work. As a springboard for several small group discussions, we will watch clips from Away from Her (Sarah Polley, 2006), Al Otro Lado (On The Other Side) (Gustavo Loza, 2005), The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004), and a recently released film.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will examine the use of film to explore ambiguous loss in the case of illness and family relationships
2. Participants will acquire knowledge about film can be employed in training contexts to address ambiguous loss concepts.
3. Participants will explore the use of film in the practice of family therapy with patients dealing with ambiguous loss.
2009 New Orleans
Family Therapy and Film: The Impact of Technology
Chair: Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Films often explore social and cultural trends that the research and clinical literature may not assess timely. The impact of technology on families is one of those trends in which psychological and family research is still in its infancy. This year, we will review a set of brief edited clips of recent films and social media features, including Ben X (2008) and My Name is Lisa (2007). The clips will serve as a start point for a dialogue about the evolving impact of social networking, virtual reality, and Web 2.0 technologies on families and address the question of the “born digital” generation.
Learning Objectives:
To assess the contribution of film and social media in understanding how children and adolescents are utilizing technology.
To dialogue about the use of film to explore technology as an intrinsic element of family life.
To develop criteria for what may constitute good practices in the use of film for family therapy training and therapy.
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2008
INTEREST GROUP Family Therapy and Film
Chair: Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Films offer a powerful opportunity for beginning and experienced clinicians to explore underlying assumptions informing the assessment of the contexts that frame our patients’ lives. Carefully edited clips of three recent and extraordinary movies will serve as a start point for focused dialogue about how cultural and professional discourses frame our assessment of traumatic situations in intercultural contexts. A revised handout of film ideas for use in clinical and educational venues plus specific exercises will be shared with participants.
Learning Objectives:
1. To assess prevailing cultural assumptions about families in cross-cultural contexts though the use of film.
2. To dialogue about the use of film to explore complex self of the therapist dilemmas.
3. To develop criteria for what may constitute good practices in the use of film for family therapy training.
Clips to analyze:
The Namesake
In July
The Secret Life of Words
Family Institute of Cambridge
Family Therapy and Films 2007
Babel
2007
INTEREST GROUP Family Therapy and Film Part I: Using Film in Training
Chairs: Gonzalo Bacigalupe & Elana Katz
Invited guests: Janine Roberts, Gladis Brun, & Barbara Gewirtz
Films are a favorite resource for educators and trainers. Janine Roberts will show two Latin AMerican movie clips and talk about how she has used them in training. Gladis Brun will share her experiences training couple threrapists in Brazil using a classical couples movie by Bergman, "Scenes of a Marriage".
INTEREST GROUP Family Therapy and Film Part II
Chairs: Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Joan Barth, & Corky Becker
Invited guests: Evan Imber-Black & Robert-Jay Green
Films can have excellent sequels. In this part, we will focus on Miguel Vilaro with screen screen of clips from "September 12" directed by his friend John Tohuey, to discuss ambiguous loss. Robert-Jay Green will share a short clip from "Dady and Pappa" about an interracial gay male couple adopting an African American child. Evan Imber-Black will share a film edit from "Unstrung heroes," illustrating secrets and rituals in the context of life-shortening illness.
2006
Interest Group Proposal
Film, Family Therapy, and Families PART II: Complex Issues in Family Therapy
Historically, family therapy has been a pioneer at filming its own practices. We also refer to movies as learning experiences for ourselves, our families, trainees, and patients. Families and therapists watch movies, talk about them in therapy, and incorporate them into their lives. What movies are related in our conversations with families? How do we use movies to highlight family dynamics, problems, solutions, stories? We will screen segments of a few movies that have been recently released in DVD and discuss how they may become part of the therapeutic repertoire and the family's story. If you have a movie in mind, please email me to include it in the list. Popcorn is optional!
Clips to analyze
Machuca
Squid and the Whale
In the Bedroom
Initial group participants
1. Lascelles Black
2. Anne Bobrick (refer by landau
3. Robert Carroll
4. Lee Combrinck-Graham
5. Martha E. Edwards
6. Laura Forman
7. Kayta Gajdos
8. Christina Gaudio
9. Barbara Gewirtz
10. Eliana Gil
11. MaryAnna Ham
12. Evan Imber-Black
13. Sara " Susy" Jutoran
14. Elana Katz
15. Judith Kellner
16. Jay King
17. Ellen Landau
18. Judith Landau
19. Linda Lockspeiser
20. Don-David Lusterman
21. Mikki Meyer
22. Shel J. Miller,
23. Marsha Mirkin
24. Susan Oppenheim
25. Roberto Pereira
26. Sanja Rolovic
27. Joellyn Ross
28. Karen Saeger
29. Ken Silvestri
30. Muriel Singer
31. Charlotte Spiegelman
32. Margarita Tarragona
33. Marion Usher
Potential Movies
Affliction (substance abuse)
Saraband
Sunshine
Scenes of a Marriage
The reef
Machuca
Squid and the Whale
In the Bedroom
The Constant Gardener
Crash
An American Rhapsody
Pieces of April
The Pianist
House of Sand and Fog
The Upside of Anger
Girl Interrupted
Harry Potter
The Human Stain
Ordinary People
Yes
The Son's Room
Whale Rider
Being Julia
Traffic
Imagining Argentina
The Official Story
El Día que me amen (When somebody loves me)
Monsoon Wedding
The Joy Luck Club
Shine
Over the Hedge
Shrek
Antwone Fisher
Radio
Good Will Hunting
Mystic River
The Ice Storm
The Story of Us
The Breakfast Club
Mean Girls
Reality Bites
The Family Stone
Ghost World
Stand By Me
Thirteen
Clueless
Welcome to the Doll House
Thumbsucker
Drugstore Cowboy
A Walk on the Moon
An Unremarkable Life
Shall We Dance?
Off the Map
The Family (Ettore Scola)
The Woodsman (CSA)
Happiness
The Heart of the Stag
Always
Loggerheads with Kip Pardue
Bella (immigration, trauma)
Under the Same Moon (immigration, mother-son relationships, Latinos in the USA)
Dirty Pretty Things (refugees, trafficking)
Immigration/Refugees Experience Movies
A Day Without a Mexican
A World Apart
Al Otro Lado (children searching for their parent abroad)
Another Side of Peace
Babel (border, intercultural)
Baran (Afgani immigrants in Iran)
Bella (Immigrants in NYC)
Dirty Pretty Things (trafficking)
Dreams of Dust (Internal Displacement)
El Norte (crossing the border experience)
Encounter Point
The Forgotten Refugees
Golden Door
Grapes of Wrath
Hester Street
Hotel Rwanda
Human Tragedy: The Face of Kosovo
La Familia (drama)
Machuca (
Maria Full of Grace (drug traffic impact)
The Namesake (Bengali experience)
Promises
Rabbit Proof Fence (indigenous children in white schools)
Refugee
Refugee Nation
Schindler’s List
The Secret Life of Words (torture survivor)
The Violin
The Year My Parents went on Vacation
Shoah
Sophie’s Choice (Holocaust survival)
Spare Parts (Trafficking)
Strengthening Resistance: The Use of Narrative Practice in Working with Genocide Survivors (Rwanda) (documentary)
Syrian Bride (drama)
The three funerals of Melquiades Concha
Under the Same Moon (Children-Parents separated by border)
When the Levees Broke (Katrina)
Witnesses